Beijing Review

President: Li Yafang Editor in Chief: Li Jianguo Associate President: Yan Ying Content Director: Liu Yunyun Executive Editor: Yan Wei Associate Executive Editors: Zan Jifang, Ding Ying Production Director: Yao Bin Editorial Administrators: Zeng Wenhu

The first negative list for cross-border trade in services for Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP) was issued on July 26. An important step since the establishment of the FTP, it is also the country’s first negative list in the field of trade in services. A

The New Bund Global Economic Organization Cluster was unveiled in Shanghai’s Pudong New Area on July 28, as part of its efforts to attract more international economic entities to drive high-quality growth. A total of 10 international economic organiz

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The world’s No.1 female table tennis player Chen Meng lived up to her reigning status by claiming the gold medal in the table tennis women’s singles competition on July 29 at the Olympic Summer Games Tokyo 2020. Chen, 27, started to play table tennis

It’s been little over a year since the master plan for the Hainan Free Trade Port was released, and all across the province, the effects of bold new policies are taking shape in the form of key industrial parks brimming with business headquarters, re

On July 26, visiting U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met with Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng, respectively, in Tianjin. They were further diplomatic engagements between the two cou

While many countries around the world have struggled to contain and overcome COVID-19, often relying on the vaccines to come to their aid like magic bullets, several have demonstrated certain special, more befitting capacities for taking on the chall

President Xi Jinping has stressed the importance of stability, development, ecological conservation and border security in Tibet Autonomous Region. Xi, also General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chairman of the

Around 3 p.m. on July 19, it started to rain. It continued to rain with occasional showers landing in the city throughout the night. On July 20, I had to avoid the puddles on my way to work. The rain was getting heavier. WeChat Moments, the messaging

Wu Tianyi, an 86-year-old medical expert and Communist Party of China (CPC) member, has lived and worked on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for over half a century. The plateau, the highest in the world known as the “third pole of the world,” covers the en

She wears a white coat, speaks fluent Chinese and diagnoses patients with the assistance of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). A German physician working at the Body and Soul Clinic in Shanghai’s Huangpu District, Doris Rathgeber, born in Düsseldorf

For Chinese people, dining means much more than just feeding themselves. Their increasing demand for variety and flavors has driven the growth of a large market, bringing an investment boom to many domestic brands. In the latest move, Lanzhou beef no

When comparing U.S. and Chinese schools, one finds a number of stark differences and unexpected similarities. Let’s begin with the most overwhelming difference. While the Chinese education system has many different objectives, its dominant feature is

Excessive burdens placed on the shoulders of young primary and secondary school students have long been a prominent issue in China’s education system. In response, the Central Government recently released a document intended to relieve students of so

East China’s port city of Quanzhou, once hailed as “the very great and noble city” by the Italian explorer Marco Polo, won UNESCO World Cultural Heritage status on July 25, bringing the total number of the country’s UNESCO World Heritage sites to 56.

China’s carbon emission trading was formally launched at the Shanghai Environment and Energy Exchange on July 16, marking a tangible step toward the goal of peaking carbon emissions by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2060. China’s per-capita